About this project

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We are offering a prize package of our hand-screened t-shirt, signed limited edition poster, AND the DVD to the individual whose pledge breaks our new 20K goal.

**PROJECT FUNDING UPDATE**

We feel like we've been given super powers having surpassed our
fundraising goal! Thanks again to our nearly 300 supporters. Having
reached 100 percent means our film will be professionally sound mixed
and color graded with a festival print ready for our South by Southwest
premiere in just a couple of weeks, but this doesn't mean we don't want
and need your continued support!

What would additional funding make possible? To start we really
want your help to raise awareness for our film. Any
additional funds raised will be directly applied to promoting the film during
the festival circuit, publicity materials, building out our website with
outtakes and insightful scenes that didn't quite make the final cut, and supporting our community screenings and eventual broadcast.
We want to bring this documentary to countless cities and continue the
dialogue about the involvement of women in comics and action-based media.
We'd love to raise another $5,000 on top of our original goal to
support these efforts, bringing our grand total to $20,000.

Our team is also thinking of other ways to promote the film and reach
out to organizations focused on women's issues. We'd love your support
in continuing to share our project with your networks, via Twitter,
Facebook, etc, and we still have a lot of rad rewards to offer–only
available during this fundraiser!

Congratulations again to to everyone who made the KICKSTARTER campaign
successful. And thank you for all your ideas, your time, your energy and
your donations! We are so excited for our film to be out in the world!

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Help us raise the money we need to fund the WORLD PREMIER of our feature documentary, WONDER WOMEN! THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES at the SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST Film Festival in Austin, TX this March, 2012.

We have already done the hard work of making the movie, and many of

you have supported us along the way (some of you may remember our
project by its working title: THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE AS TOLD BY
WONDER WOMAN). Now we need to professionally sound mix and color grade the film and prepare a festival print. Help us bring the film to a festival near you this year!

WONDER
WOMEN! THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES traces the
fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman. From the birth of the
comic book superheroine in the 1940s, to the blockbusters of today,
WONDER WOMEN! looks at how popular representations of powerful women
often reflect society’s anxieties about women’s liberation.

To
date we've interviewed many articulate and dynamic women such as activists Gloria Steinem and Shelby Knox, actresses Lynda
Carter (Wonder Woman) and Lindsay Wagner (The Bionic Woman), and punk
rock star Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill & Le Tigre), as well as many others who offer an enlightening and entertaining counterpoint to the male-dominated superhero genre.

WONDER
WOMEN! introduces audiences to a cast of fictional and real
life superheroines fighting for positive role models for girls, both on
screen and off, and reminds us of our common human need for stories that tell us we can all be
heroes.

PLEDGE $40 and receive a handmade, recycled comic book pendant, crafted by OPTIMYSTICAL STUDIOS. Each pendant is unique, captured under glass, or glazed over a shell base. **NOTE: The pendant is not included at the $50 pledge level.**

FAQ:
CAN YOU EXCEED THE GOAL?YES! Kickstarter will allow as much money as is given before the
deadline. The more money we raise, the more shoots we can do, the
sooner the film will be completed!

WHO DOES THE MONEY GO TO?
All money (minus the fees for Kickstarter’s involvement) will go
directly to fund our festival launch.

WHAT ARE YOUR DISTRIBUTION PLANS?
National and international television is our goal. We also plan to
distribute the film in the educational market (schools and colleges),
film festivals, home video, and the internet. Help us get this film
seen!

CAN I SHOW THIS FILM IN MY HOME TOWN ONCE IT IS COMPLETED?
Absolutely! We encourage community screenings with a panel discussion.
We will help you organize these once the film is done.

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $75 or more
About $75

A thank you in our credits, a signed DVD of the finished film, and a custom designed and hand-screened, sweatshop free WONDER WOMEN! onesie for the tiniest superhero or heroine in your life! (See design at left)

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $100 or more
About $100

A thank you in our credits, a signed DVD of the finished film, and a signed copy of the recently published, MISS FURY, a full-color hardcover collection of the first female superhero to be created and drawn by a woman.

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $750 or more
About $750

A thank you in our credits, a signed DVD of the finished film, and a custom, hand-crafted Superheroine/hero figurine of your choice, created by Wonder Women film subject, Mike Madrid. (See photo at left)